Apple Is Weighing a Cheaper iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has been exploring ways to broaden the appeal of the iPhone by making the popular device less expensive and allowing users to control it with voice commands. — But contrary to ...
It's Not a Bubble, People; It's a Pyramid Scheme
Mark Cuban knows a thing or two about bubbles, having profited handsomely from an earlier Internet boom. But ask him if we're seeing Bubble 2.0 and he'll give you a different theory. — “It's almost...
Confessions of an Apple Store Employee
Apple is famous for its secrecy, with a code of silence that runs from top management all the way down to its retail employees. One Apple Store employee decided to throw protocol to the curb and tell...
Regulators Eye Apple Anew
Enforcers Interested in Whether Digital-Subscription Rules Stifle Competition — WASHINGTON—U.S. antitrust enforcers have begun looking at the terms Apple Inc. set this week for media companies who w...
‘Year Of The Rabbit’ Begins As Chrome 10 Hops Into Beta With ‘Crankshaft’ JavaScript
As they have made abundantly clear over the past several months, Google hates talking about the version numbers of Chrome. — Well, except when they have something to talk about. Which is actually q...
Acer Windows Phone 7 devices coming Autumn 2011
EXCLUSIVE: September or October release — An Acer spokesperson has confirmed to Pocket-lint that Acer will be joining the Windows Phone 7 party this autumn, with a September or October 2011 launch p...
Gawker's Gulp Moment: Big Redesign Is Driving People Away
About ten days ago, gossip blog Gawker and its sister sites Gizmodo, Lifehacker and others switched over to a drastic redesign which was met with plenty of jeers. People always complain about design ...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Now Hosts His Blog on Amazon S3 and So Can You
Amazon is now offering hosting for static Web sites through S3. It makes it possible now for people with blogs and static Web sites to get the power of Amazon Web Services performance. — Its first ...
Skype: Expect Video Calling for AT&T
Now that Skype and Qik have joined, they plan to bring video calls to all four major US carriers. — BARCELONA—Skype's video-calling prowess will improve the quality of Qik video calls on Sprint and ...
Telltale Signs That Videogames Will Be Downloaded, Not Sold at Retail
The business of selling plastic-wrapped videogames for $60 apiece is becoming an ancient practice, as digital downloads take over-often at lower prices. — But a small San Rafael, Calif.-based videog...
Nordstrom Acquires Flash Sales Site HauteLook For $270 Million
In one of the larger exits so far in the flash sales business, retail chain Nordstrom has acquired flash sales site HauteLookfor $180 million in Nordstrom stock and three-year earn-out of up to $90 mi...
Apple looking to increase battery life with dense lithium cells
Apple is investigating techniques to increase the energy capacity of rechargeable lithium battery cells without increasing the size of the battery, allowing longer battery life in future devices.
Spotify Signs On EMI for U.S. Launch. At Least One More to Go...
Both EMI and Spotify declined to comment. — Coupled with last month's Sony deal, Spotify now has the approval …
An update to Google Social Search
Today we're doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the bi...
Apple secures 60% of global touch panel capacity, causing tight supply
In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's competitors, a...
Sony Exec: We Are Not Abandoning iTunes
Sony has no plans to withdraw Sony Music songs from Apple's iTunes as payback for Apple's decision to block the Sony e-reader app from the App Store. — Sony is launching its own subscription service...
Foreign hackers attack Canadian government
An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government, apparently from China, has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information and forced at least two key departments off th...
FBI To Announce Significant New Wiretap Push - Backdoors Galore In Everything From Skype To BitTorrent
Despite the fact the phone companies now act as part time FBI surveillance analysts with a fleeting regard to law, and dump U.S. citizen data and voice traffic wholesale through NSA listening posts …
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
Here is a stunning visualization of the collapse of the music industry from Bain. As you can see, the growth of digital sales is not doing enough to offset the death of the CD. — (Chart via Peter K...
Acer Windows Phone 7 devices coming Autumn 2011
EXCLUSIVE: September or October release — An Acer spokesperson has confirmed to Pocket-lint that Acer will be joining the Windows Phone 7 party this autumn, with a September or October 2011 launch p...
Presenting Our National Broadband Map. It's a Start.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) unveiled a nationwide broadband map for the U.S. today, and said that “between five and ten percent of Americans don't have broadb...
Redbox digital service will go toe-to-toe with Netflix
Redbox is gearing up to challenge Netflix head-on, the kiosk DVD rental company confirmed Wednesday. — At a meeting with analysts, Redbox President Mitch Lowe said his company's forthcoming digital ...
IBM Watson's next adventure: Healthcare with Nuance
IBM has said its Watson computer would be applied beyond Jeopardy and now is making good on that promise. IBM and Nuance Communications have launched a research program to commercialize Watson for th...
Android Big in Barcelona
System Powers Slew of New Devices; Some Fear Market Duopoly With Apple's iOS — A year after wireless carriers gave Google Inc. a testy reception at their big industry conference in Barcelona, the so...
Apple, Cisco, others organize for a tax holiday lobby
FORTUNE — Economists, businessmen, and politicians of every stripe have spent months talking themselves hoarse about how to get the roughly $2 trillion in corporate reserves back into the economy. Ge...
Intel says will find new MeeGo partners
(Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) said it would look for new partners for the MeeGo mobile operating system after partner Nokia chose to focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. — Intel ...
Mac Growth Outpaces Market for 19th Straight Quarter
The Mac has been on a growth tear for a few years now, outperforming the broader PC market in most every sector. Indeed, December 2010 marked the 19th consecutive quarter that it did so. Mac shipmen...
Motorola pushes up Atrix 4G launch to Feb. 22, shoves Xoom pre-sales back to Feb. 20th?
The best laid plans of Motorola may be in disarray, as we hear the device manufacturer is shuffling release dates for its hottest new Android devices. Supposedly, AT&T customer service reps are getti...